Skyrim Recipe Part 2: Sweet Rolls!

So after posting about my blog on Reddit, I got some feedback about sweet rolls. 

When I started formulating recipes from Skyrim, I had intended to just use ingredients listed for the pots and spits. However, I got some feedback about wanting sweet rolls. It just so happens I make sweet rolls and I have a great, basic recipe--one that could totally be made in a fantasy realm where modern-day conveniences are scarce. Here goes--trust me, they are delicious. 

1 tbs yeast1/4 warm water (around 105 degrees F)

2 sticks butter

1/3 cup sugar1 cup room temperature milk (2% or full fat)

1 egg

4.5 cups sifted all purpose flour

1.5 tsp salt

filling:brown sugar chopped nuts, raisins (if you want) cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger

Put the yeast in a bowl. Add the water. Stir and soak for 10 minutes. It should foam (proves the yeast is alive and all that).

Heat the milk, butter and sugar in a pan until steaming but not boiling. Stir a lot so that it all blends together. Cool. 
Beat the egg. Add it to the yeast, then stir in the cooled milk mixture. Knead in the flour and salt. Put it in an oiled bowl and let rise 90 minutes. 
Roll the dough and form a rectangle. Brush with butter (seriously, this makes it good). Sprinkle it with the brown sugar and spice and nut mixture. 

Now roll it up into a tube! It should look like a long cylinder with a spiral of deliciousness in the middle. Cut it with kitchen scissors or a greased knife into 1.5 inch thick rounds. Place slices in an 8 or 9 inch round greased cake pan. Place one slice in the middle and other slices around it. Press rolls down to even out and fill pan. Let rise until rolls fill the pan.

Bake at 350 for 20 minutes. 


About glazing: powdered sugar was produced in Sicily as early as the 800s. So I can't say that it's "modern." If you want to use it, I make this glaze:
1 c. powdered sugar
1 tbsp. milk


I like to use vanilla, but that wasn't available until the conquest of mesoamerica. If you want to go all old-school, you can just use a mixed of honey, cinnamon and hot mead or hot wine, all mixed into a syrup and poured over the rolls.